Loved Dave King’s statement, absolutely loved it, as Kevin Keegan would say. On the positive side for Newco fans, “Rangers” beat Celtic 2-1 on the mention count. Well done, Dave, excellent result.
In short, Our New Hero confirmed five points:
The manager he appointed in 2015, Mark Warburton, was an improvement on Ally – I’ll tell the fans anything for money – McCoist, but he was not good enough when up against top-flight clubs.
He didn’t get a resignation from Warburton and his management team. There are now two club statements out there earnestly trying to convince you otherwise, but both are clear on the subject – there was no resignation.
They have burned £18m in less than two years to get into this mess.
“Our realistic expectation [for this season] was to come second”.
There will be jam tomorrow.
Warburton and his management team were sacked in the most dignified manner conceivable: informed by a journalist who read they were out of a job on the club web site.
Let the sacking sink in for a moment. Management were informed they were sacked by a journo who read an article on a web site! Years from now no one will believe such a thing could happen.
Who behaves like this? Sacking someone is never pleasant, but if you don’t have the cahonas to do the job in person, get out of the employer business. You have to wonder where their moral compass is.
The club appear to have acted after it became clear Warburton & Co. were not getting the Nottingham Forest gig and there would be no chance of a compensation payment heading to Glasgow. Forest didn’t buy the soiled merchandise, there’s no resignation letter nor even a meeting where a verbal resignation could have taken place. Not a concern if they don’t remain in business long enough for the legal process to run its course, though.
I’m pleased King made the financial facts clear: this is what overinvestment looks like at Ibrox. £18m shovelled into the furnace already, and there’s a good chance pushing that figure up to £30m will not be enough (according to King).
What “enough” is, is the question.
Their realistic expectation was to come second! Less of this “Going for 55” nonsense, please, you’re “Going for second place”, we all know it. There is no shame in this, the cold fact is that Celtic are out of reach.
Going for second place is a high watermark from now on. Pushing the £18m up to £30m or more will do nothing more than make the battle with Aberdeen and Hearts more interesting.
This season alone Celtic will earn £50m more than any other Scottish club. £30m, £50m, £70m over three or more years will still not bridge the gap at the top.
Then, when the last of these loans are made, the unpleasant business of reigning costs back to breakeven point will take place. What you didn’t read in King’s statement was any awareness that football clubs have to pay the piper. Financial responsibility is a foreign language.
Given his past football directorship, you’d think……..
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Both teams have put them oot the cup before. wonder if bammy8 will still be around for the replay against the side that turned bader down and still survived
Celtic v St Mirren
Aberdeen v Partick Thistle
Hearts or Hibs v Ayr/Clyde
Rangers v Hamilton/Dunfermline
Every side that mcurine has joined have after a wee bit of initial success been left in a shambles once he walked out on them
another home tie for the newhuns incredible. a bye to the semis for them.
Sevco?
Even St. Brendan couldnae fashion a team oot o that lot!!
TT agus GFTB – One for yer good selfs.
Neil Francis Lennon, the ultimate warrior, Celtic to the core :
https://youtu.be/4-g1ePpGBYM
Splendid.
HH.
Just had a sneak preview of tomorrow’s Sports Editorial in The Daily Record:
“The contempt shown for Scottish football was epitomised, yet again, by Mikael Lustig. The Celtic right back had the temerity to wander into the opposition’s penalty box where he disrespectfully trapped the ball in a deliberate echo of Paulo Di Canio’s sleight at Pittodrie several years ago, before then slotting the ball through the legs of the outrushing goalkeeper.
There really should be no place for this type of impertinence in our national game.
Hopefully the SFA and SPFL will act immediately to bring Brendan Rodgers and his mischief-makers to account”
The way I see it is sevco do not have the money to appoint a contractual manager. They will appoint McLeish as caretaker until the end of the season or death, whichever comes first.
My theory is that there’s only one ball at a time in that box they rummage around in. There’s a flap in the bottom of it and a wee hun midget under the table pushing in one ball at a time. No need for hot or cold. Clever!
‘Wee Hun midget’ hahahahahahah oh ma sides.
Must admit when we came out I wanted them :-)))
Glen
Wouldn’t put it past them :-)
Superb
HH
Sevco setting a new world record.
Home tie again eh?
50/50 apparently.
No bookie on earth would give ye odds on that outcome.
Normally 10/11 your pick.
No offers.
Hunbelivable.
HH.
So, in a season when one team are miles ahead in the league and there is a perceived need for an exciting tail end of the season … by SHEER COINCIDENCE … the top four teams in the country all get home ties in the quarter final?
Hmm.
POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES on 12TH FEBRUARY, ack to hell with it you are just a pervert no normal person would have those thoughts
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 12TH FEBRUARY 2017 5:38 PM
You should see what my therapist thinks about me, lol.
POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES on 12TH FEBRUARY 2017 5:41 PM
That must be a big monthly bill!
KTF
ack a therapist that explains it
Or is it weekly?
KTF
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 12TH FEBRUARY 2017 5:43 PM
Twice a week at the moment ;-)
Alex McLeish : As a manager he has generated almost as many protests as Donald Trump.
Tee Hee and HH.
Doesnt matter who we got but why cant they have open window glass/perspex az they do doon sooth ?
16 ROADS 535
The only way to stop them getting home ties is for me-or you,haha!-to take some of that 10/11 next time.
But since that will be next season,it should be hypothetical by then…
I prefer Celtic being drawn away, but Brendan makes me feel confident home or away, I need to admit I wanted the Sevs to go to pittodrie still smile when they sang “we hate ranjurs more than you” by the way you is plural one of my pet dislikes “yous”
16roads….
I love Neil Francis, player & manager, wish he never left but Brendan is one of the best things to happen to my club (if not the best) in my lifetime
https://youtu.be/j-xxis7hDOE
;))
16roads
10:11 the Sevs getting a home draw, only Stevie the bookie from Still Game would give you those odds
The huns need cash 1/3 a home draw and even then am losing 33.3p for every £1
King’s ‘Spin’ of the day
revolution;
noun UK /ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/ US /ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using “violence or war.”
‘Sevco Revolution’, Be careful what you wish for. Maybe Mr Warburton’s dismissal was a type of violence? Legal warfare to follow (follow)?
16 Roads,
No surprise then that Sevco got a home tie in the Black and Tan Scottish Cup:)
Duty calls
I think I may have had an analogous moderation. Quick get my meds.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 12TH FEBRUARY 2017 4:48 PM
Wonder if any of the Cqn 14 jokered the Sevs… just wondering :-)
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Surely not !!!!!!!!!!
Greenpinata 6pm
Not for me to speculate :-)
Not sure if you caught my post yesterday, I left work at 12pm and considered going to McChuills or the Tollbooth but going by Queen Street a train was running late so just headed back home…. My post was you had a lucky escape as you might have been landed with me in McChuills :-)
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 12TH FEBRUARY 2017 5:27 PM
My theory is that there’s only one ball at a time in that box they rummage around in. There’s a flap in the bottom of it and a wee hun midget under the table pushing in one ball at a time. No need for hot or cold. Clever!
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Priceless!
HH!!
Has the Celts gemme been on sportscene yet ?
Gerryfaethebrig
Yeah , saw it last night. I think. ( Or was it this morning) :-)))))
These early ko,s should carry a health warning.
It’s a pity you didn’t give the train a miss, It would have been good to meet up.
I’ll look forward to when we eventually share a few.
HH.
Jude2005-4:10pm ha ha, watched modern family today,the goat got it in that to:-))))
Should rename it the “Scottish home tie for the rangers cup”.
Quite blatant cheating going on and they’ll try to hide it by pointing to Celtics 2iar home ties. But in reality it’s all about the money and survival of the team that plays out of Ibrox.
V
Greenpinata
next away game lunchtime kick off on a Saturday am meant to be meeting my pools agent in Alfredos, am sure he would be just as happy in McChuills (he lurks on here)
Would enjoy talking rubbish with you about the hoops over a few pints
all joKING aside, if they get a real manager in, things will be very different for us. I’m not sure our current level of fitness, game awareness, staggering improvement to squad members, consistency, upping of the pace with 20 minutes to go, competition for almost every place, variety of play could necessarily cope with their squad. Today against Morton, they had
6Wilson
7Garner
8Toral
15Forrester
17Hodson
25Alnwick
29O’Halloran
who couldn’t even get a place.
sarcasmhaveieveroffendedthee
The draw has been changed already.
According to STV News, Celtic v St Johnstone.
St Mirren out without kicking a ball.